French-language Swiss writers

French and Swiss film director (1930–2022)

Genevan-French author (1766-1817)

French-Swiss politician, writer on politics and religion (1767-1830)

Swiss philosopher and poet (1821-1881)

Hungarian Swiss writer, poet, novelist and playwright (1935–2011)

Swiss writer (1878-1947)

Swiss writer (1887-1961)

Swiss writer (1895-1981)

Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricature artist (1799-1846)

Swiss writer (1906-1985)

physician and author (1917–2012)

Swiss writer, artist and traveller (1929–1998)

Swiss artist (1934-2009)

historian, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1915-2002)

Swiss screenwriter and comics artist (1927–2024)

Swiss writer (1912-1979)

Swiss poet (1916-2009)

Swiss writer and historian (1880–1970)

Swiss journalist and writer (1874-1953)

Swiss French scholar and literary critic (1901-1957)

Swiss physician and author, pastoral counsellor (1898-1986)

Swiss pastor and writer (1800-1871)

Swiss writer (born 1960)

Swiss writer (1849-1924)

Swiss writer

Swiss literary critic (1910-2002)

Belgian-Swiss engineer and politician (1931-2025)

Rwandan writer

Swiss journalist and photographer (1937–2023)

Swiss writer and publishing editor (1941-2013)

Swiss writer

Swiss novelist (1892–1965)

Swiss publisher and historian (1893–1976)

Swiss politician and historian (1842-1920)

Swiss writer, artist, interior and designer (1965–2022)

Swiss writer (1910-2001)

Swiss neo-fascist political philosopher and Holocaust denier

Swiss writer (1864-1911)

Bessora (born 1968, Brussels, Belgium) is a novelist and short story writer. After a career in international finance in Geneva, she studied anthropology and wrote her first novel. Since 1999 Bessora has published a book a year on average, mainly through the publishing group Gallimard. Her books have been translated into several languages. Bessora has been awarded the Fénéon Prize in 2001 for her novel Ink Stains, and the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 2007 for her novel Pick Me Pretty Sirs, and the Swiss Literature Prize and Prix Kourouma for Vous, les ancêtres.

Swiss journalist

Swiss writer and translator (1920-2012)

Swiss painter (1863-1929)

Swiss writer (1210-2010)

Swiss journalist (1916-2007)

comparative religions scholar (1916-1985)

Swiss writer (1925-2017)

Swiss radio moderator and writer (1931–2007)

writer

Swiss writer (1895-1968)